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Me sowing: I'll just shoot this video with no eye towards color or exposure and figure it out later

Me reaping: All this footage looks shit! The colors are so bad! Ahhhh!

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 19h

I think this is potentially disgusting, but it SHOULD exist

CodyVella @codyvella.bsky.social · 21h

And another thing. How come we have burrito bowls but not sub bowls? Maybe I want to eat a deconstructed greasy Italian sub with a fork. Is that really such a crime?

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 20h

They're filming something wild in Broken Hill.

Source: www.facebook.com/watch/?v=135...

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 22h

Oh yeah. Australia built amazing burnout platforms for years

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 1d

Three years ago today, @neildegrassetyson.com asserted on “Real Time with Bill Maher” that unlike atomic bombs, “… modern nukes [thermonuclear bombs] don’t have the radiation problem … not in the way we used to have to worry about with fallout and all the rest of that.”

This is completely wrong.

Neil deGrasse Tyson: modern hydrogen nuclear weapons don’t have the radiation fallout problem of WW2

YouTube video by Interstellar1977

www.youtube.com

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 22h

Something deeply philosophically wrong about posing for a photo next to a city-destroying weapon with a big grin on your face

Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 1d

the USSR did design and test “clean” (90%-plus fusion) thermonuclear weapons. This was a key reason we opposed a nuclear test ban in the 1950s. But neither country widely deployed them because they were not powerful enough for the miniaturized warheads that could fit into MIRVs on ICBMs/SLBMs.

A circular color photograph of the team leaders of the W87-1 warhead modification program (left to right, a white man, an asian woman, and a white woman) standing next to a black Mk21A conical reentry vehicle sitting vertically on a wheeled platform. The Mk21A is roughly as tall as the white man and the white woman.

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 1d

Australia's own Pontiac Aztek

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 1d

For me, movie popcorn feels like LESS of a rip off these days, because everything else is so much more expensive in comparison

Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 2d

It's ridiculous how much movie theaters are charging for popcorn these days. I typically don't pay anything for food that exploded.

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 2d

You're missing a couple of capital letters and a full stop there, my guy.

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d

going viral here is worse than it used to be on twitter because half of the replies will just be pure pedantry

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 2d

People have a *weird* blind spot around Harry Potter.

I have queer friends that still keep the books and watch the movies.

Just... wild.

Alex Ries @alexries.com · 2d

What are your theories as to why nominally 'liberal' people like Simon Pegg and Matt Berry are willing to work with Rowling?

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 2d

All I wanna do is book a vocal booth at a studio with an online form instead of sending 50 emails is that too much to ask

Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 2d

genuinely recommend it! It's like a bath but you get to relax while it's filling, and the sound and feeling is very peaceful.

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 2d

I have done this precisely six (6) times in my life. four times as tragedy, two times as farce.

call that a showerbath. usually only for when you're really depressed and need to be in a warm, comforting rainstorm for a little bit.

toastface killah @toasty.cx · 2d

make up a guy: dude who fills his bathtub with the showerhead *while* laying in the tub

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Perennial Astronaut (BUT SCARY!!!!) @mkdouma6.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not looking it up as I'm sure someone else had the idea already but if I owned a restaurant chain I would come out with a turkey stuffing gravy cranberry sauce sandwich and coin it The Stuffler®

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 2d

...30th anniversary?

Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 2d

You definitely had to walk us through that one

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 2d

Funnily enough friends once spent a hour trying to change a headlight bulb in a Camry Hybrid, before they gave up and called me. It took me a further hour after that.

Maybe we should have just removed the whole thing...

Alan Bradley @ajpbradley.bsky.social · 3d

Useless fact du jour, it takes about 45 mins to swap out a Yaris headlamp unit when one of the built-in DRL strips has decided to frazzle itself.

“Arrr Jimlad!” A 2018 Toyota Yaris missing a headlamp unit.

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 2d

It's cool vinyl is back in a big way but no way in hell am I paying $60 for a copy of Hot Fuss, come on now

ani ❤️‍🔥 taylivcie girl @billiebrokendreams.bsky.social · 2d

i love being a cd and cassette collector as opposed to a vinyl collector because i can get both a cd and cassette for basically the same price as 1 vinyl

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 2d

I've duped a few on home decks, and the slurring of higher frequency content is wild.